adminRIO DE JANEIRO. — Olympics organisers battled an array of persistent problems as the Games entered its second week on Saturday, from a lurid green diving pool to competitors taken to the wrong venue, and a long-distance swimming pontoon swept away by the waves.
The refusal of the Olympic diving pool to return to a more appealing blue hue has baffled technicians and competitors alike after it was pumped full of chemicals since turning a cloudy green colour on Tuesday.
The colour and acrid smell of the pool have prompted jokes on the Internet and complaints from competitors and have become a symbol of the organisational problems dogging South America’s first Games, which come as Brazil struggles with deep recession and political upheaval.
On Saturday, Olympics organizers finally concluded the strange colour was due to a mix-up over pool chemicals. — Reuters.
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